Asian Stocks Gain on Profit Optimism; Newcrest, Toyota Advance
Bloomberg
Tokyo Electron Ltd. slumped 5.1 percent as Morgan Stanley downgraded U.S. semiconductor companies. Futures on the U.S. Standard & Poor’s 500 Index added 0.4 percent, while Treasuries were little changed before U.S. reports that economists e...
In touch with molecules
EurekAlert!
( Kiel University ) The performance of modern electronics increases steadily on a fast pace thanks to the ongoing miniaturization of the utilized components. However, severe problems arise due to quantum-mechanical phenomena when convention...
FEI reports sharply higher profits
Oregonian
Oregonian file photo/2008 At work on an FEI electron microscope at the company's Hillsboro headquarters FEI Co. reported this afternoon that its quarterly profits soared in the third quarter despite flat revenues. In the three months ended ...
Josh Wolk's Pop Culture Club talks 'Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew': Silly ...
Entertainment Weekly Online
And yet those very traits that would make them stars on any other reality show (drunkenness, promiscuity) are here put under an electron microscope to reveal them as the sad building blocks of an unhappy life that they are. But I’ll keep wa...
Top three Star Trek-style holodeck experiences
ZDNet
Surround 3D TV is making its way to your living room. To get a sense of what it may look and sound like, look no further than the cutting edge of virtual reality taking shape at academic research centers outfitted with world class data visu...
FEI Sells Phenom Product Line
MetrologyWorld.com
FEI Company announced that Phenom-World, a majority-owned subsidiary of NTS Group B.V. (NTS) of Eindhoven, The Netherlands, has acquired FEI's Phenom product line. NTS has been FEI's manufacturing partner and was closely involved with the d...
Camtek Announces Closing of the Acquisition of SELA - Semiconductor Engineering Laboratories Ltd
redOrbit
MIGDAL HAEMEK, Israel, November 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Camtek Ltd. (NASDAQ and TASE: CAMT), today announced that further to its announcement on September 24, 2009, regarding the signing of an agreement for the acquisition of the entir...
SN 0.Ia [Dynamics of Cats]
ScienceBlogs
A couple of years ago, a group of California theorists came up with a whacky theory for a new kind of thermonuclear supernova. It would be just like regular type Ia supernovae, but fainter and faster, and a bit more mixed up, as evidenced b...
Communications & Power Industries to Support Cloud Research Radar Systems for U.S. Department of Energy
redOrbit
PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Communications & Power Industries, Inc. (CPI) has received two contracts totaling approximately $4.8 million to support six multi-frequency cloud radar systems.
Vibrations key to efficiency of green fluorescent protein
UC Newsroom
BERKELEY — University of California, Berkeley, chemists have discovered the secret to the success of a jellyfish protein whose green glow has made it the darling of biologists and the subject of the 2008 Nobel prize in physiology or medicin...